coruscations

It was of Jean Paul's doing: some single billow in that vast World-Mahlstrom of Humour, with its heaven-kissing coruscations, which is now, alas, all congealed in the frost of death!

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

Why, on the outside cover were printed every month the words of one of the world's great writers, words proclaiming the inspired mission of the TRANSCONTINENTAL by a star of literature whose first coruscations had appeared inside those self-same covers.

Chapter 25 2010

I stepped quickly back as it loomed above me like towering cumulus, coruscations of colour sweeping across its surface.

Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

You shall make a sketch for me — a slight thing — for sketches, I think, show the freedom of art better than finished pieces — I dote on the first coruscations of genius — flashing like lightning from the cloud! —

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Every forenoon, soldiers burst out of the great barracks into the sandy gymnasium-ground hard by, and flew over the wooden horse, and hung on to flying ropes, and dangled upside-down between parallel bars, and shot themselves off wooden platforms, — splashes, sparks, coruscations, showers of soldiers.

Somebody's Luggage 2007

The stars were intensely bright, and a well-defined auroral arch, throwing off fantastic coruscations, lighted the whole northern sky.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

In spite of all his exertions, and the perpetual blazes of triumph, coruscations of talent, victories of good old English comedy, which his play-bills advertised, his theatre (which, if you please, and to injure no present susceptibilities and vested interests, we shall call the Museum Theatre) by no means prospered, and the famous Impresario found himself on the verge of ruin.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Lightning, however, and coruscations and thunder seldom occur in the winter, but about the time of great heat.

The New Organon 2005

There are certain coruscations which give light but do not burn.

The New Organon 2005

I too have been a student of Dalí's excesses and an amateur of his coruscations - clearly not as well informed as you, though.

languagehat.com: APOPHENIA. 2005